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...seven of the 30 counts against him on the ground that a 1948 presidential amnesty absolved these crimes. The prosecution agreed, even though the seventh count-involving the ambush murder of Aurora Quezon, widow of the onetime President-was committed a full year after the amnesty had been granted. Thereupon Taruc's three lawyers waived formal reading of the complaint and Taruc pleaded: "Guilty, Your Honor...
...soldiers. Several hours later, U Nu met the same procession, limping home and disillusioned. "We expected the Japanese commander to be thankful," one of the marchers explained, "but all he did was to take his hand from his trousers pocket and give us a hard slap in the face." Thereupon, U Nu and the marchers, as Burmese often do in moments of desperation, spontaneously burst out laughing...
...proposal on EDC. Why not simply submit the EDC treaty as it is? John Foster Dulles asked him last week. Because it would not pass, replied Mendès. Dulles (who has relied on the consistently over-optimistic U.S. embassy estimates) said his information was to the contrary. Thereupon Mendès went down the roster of the Assembly to prove his case...
...Thereupon the count takes a decisive hand. He tells the baron-who by now has given the earrings to the countess-who it was that gave them to her first. Shocked at her unfeeling duplicity in accepting such a gift, the baron breaks off his suit. The countess goes into a decline, the count into a mounting rage. In the end he challenges the baron to a duel. In rushing to prevent it, the countess has a heart attack and dies...
...King Umberto-sent a message from exile in Portugal which in effect scolded the Covelli faction and urged that Italy align itself with "a federated Europe." Help to Scelba. Last week the two factions broke apart. Covelli summoned a meeting of the party; Lauro canceled it: Covelli rescheduled it. Thereupon Achille Lauro broke from Covelli, set up a dissident party called the Popular Monarchists. Lauro's principal followers, mostly other shipowners, went along with him ("The fleet has deserted us," cracked Covelli men), and all but one of the Monarchist branches in Naples-seat of Lauro's strength...